Young Radicals
Subtitle: Notes on Committed Youth
By: Kenneth Keniston
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
Copyright date: 1968
Subjects: Radicalism -- United States; Young adults -- United States -- Political activity; Youth -- United States -- Political activity
Notes: 6
Table of contents: title: 3
label: Introduction: Vietnam Summer and the New Left; title: 4
label: What was Vietnam Summer?; title: 8
label: The course of this study; title: 13
label: Vietnam Summer leaders and the New Left; title: 20
label: 1. The radical commitment; title: 21
label: As seen in interviews; title: 25
label: On being a radical; title: 36
label: The openness of the future; title: 44
label: 2. Personal roots: struggle and specialness; title: 45
label: Two inadequate hypotheses; title: 48
label: In the beginning; title: 51
label: Maternal love and pressure; title: 55
label: The split in the image of the father; title: 60
label: The principled parents; title: 67
label: The experience of struggle; title: 70
label: The early sense of specialness; title: 74
label: Childhood and politics; title: 77
label: 3. Personal roots: turmoil, success, and the end of the line; title: 78
label: Turmoil-filled adolescence; title: 86
label: The resumption of success; title: 92
label: Portents of radicalism; title: 98
label: Nearing the end of the line; title: 101
label: Adolescence and politics; title: 106
label: 4. Becoming a radical; title: 111
label: Continuity and change; title: 120
label: The “naturalness” of commitment; title: 125
label: The confrontation with inequity; title: 126
label: The shock of confrontation; title: 127
label: The failure of the system; title: 129
label: The radical reinterpretation; title: 131
label: Outrage, deprivation, and guilt; title: 133
label: Activation and engagement; title: 134
label: The extension of responsibility; title: 135
label: The finding of models; title: 140
label: The issue of effectiveness; title: 143
label: Engagement with the Movement; title: 147
label: 5. The tensions of Movement work; title: 150
label: Encapsulation and solidarity; title: 160
label: Participation and power; title: 173
label: Process and program; title: 182
label: Cultural and political revolution; title: 190
label: Group tension and personal change; title: 193
label: 6. The continuation of change; title: 194
label: Weariness, rage, and resisistance; title: 204
label: Persistence and reward; title: 216
label: The continuation of change; title: 225
label: Accident, obedience, and history; title: 229
label: 7. Change, affluence, and violence; title: 231
label: Change and the credibility gap; title: 239
label: The advent of automatic affluence; title: 247
label: Violence: sadism and cataclysm; title: 257
label: 8. Youth and history; title: 259
label: “Young radical”: a temporary identity; title: 264
label: Youth as a stage of life; title: 272
label: The post‐modern style; title: 275
label: Fluidity, flux, change, movement; title: 277
label: Generational identification, inclusion; title: 279
label: Personalism, participation; title: 282
label: Ambivalence toward technology; title: 285
label: Non‐violence; title: 285
label: The search for new forms; title: 291
label: Appendix A. A note on research involvement; title: 297
label: Appendix B. The sources of student dissent; title: 298
label: Two varieties of dissent; title: 305
label: The sources of activism; title: 306
label: The protest‐prone personality; title: 310
label: The protest‐promoting institution; title: 314
label: The protest‐prompting cultural climate; title: 318
label: The protest‐producing historical situation; title: 320
label: The future of student activism; title: 326
label: Appendix C. Alienation in American youth; title: 327
label: The alienation syndrome; title: 329
label: The ideology of alienation; title: 330
label: Alienation as a style of life; title: 332
label: Alienation and the personal past; title: 335
label: Alienation in fantasy; title: 337
label: Hypotheses about the psychological sources of alienation; title: 338
label: Limitations and implications; title: 343
label: Reference Notes; title: 361
label: Bibliography